And now it's time to make some art brushes.…So, there are a number of different ways to, to do it,…just like there's a number of different ways to do everything in Illustrator.…And the key is you want whatever object or objects you…want to make into a brush, you want them selected first.…And then, if your Brushes panel isn't even open, one thing you…can do is actually drag your artwork over the Brushes panel icon.…And that will pop…it open for you.…And then you can just drag into the panel, and let go.…And then you get this new brush dialogue.…

And in this case we're going to make an art brush.…And we're going to say okay.…I'm not going to look at any of these now, except for that I'm going to say flower.…We're going to come back and look at all of these parameters and.…Later movies in this chapter and then I'm going to say OK.…The first thing that you'll notice is that,…if I decide that I want to just paint with an art brush, I'll select it and it…is selected in the panel but if you're not sure it is, and you go to click it.…

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9/19/2013

Discover how to paint and draw with Adobe Illustrator's powerful object-creation brushes. In this course, artist and author Sharon Steuer will show you how to use art brushes, pattern brushes, scatter brushes, and brush-like symbols to warp, bend, repeat, stretch, scatter, and distribute objects along a path, and quickly populate scenes with complex groups of objects. You'll learn how to scale, colorize, and modify your objects; create different versions of brushes; edit the underlying paths; and fix common mistakes. You'll also see how to prepare artwork to make into brushes, resize brushes, and understand which brush or symbol is appropriate for different drawing situations. Plus, learn to paint with raster objects in dynamic new ways, and auto-generate corners for vector and raster pattern brushes.

See the previous course in the series, Artistic Painting with Illustrator: Natural Media Brushes, for Sharon's insights on more traditional tools like the Paintbrush and Blob Brush.

Topics include:

Creating and experimenting with object-creation brushes

Preparing artwork to make into brushes

Scaling and distorting brushes by varying line weight and stroke profiles